01-15-2003, 06:19 PM
Yes, it is a speedup circuit. Some used some keyord commands to turn it on and off (you should see some wires going to the keyboard). Others used a magnetic reed switch and an external magnet to control them. Finally some used a tiny pushbutton mounted in the charger port.
The connection to the CPU card is not a diode, but the timing capacitor. The chips on the speedup board are usually a CMOS flip/flop and an analog switch.